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TIL Green Bell Peppers Are Just Unripe Versions Of Red Peppers

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N7Q68 TIL that an "unpaired word" is a word that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word, but does not. Examples include disgruntled, nonchalant, and ruthless.
AJvl TIL that Fiji water company ran the slogan “Fiji, because it’s not bottled in Cleveland”. The Cleveland water dept. Took offense, and ran a test determining that Fiji water has more impurities than the cities’ tap water.
kJ9pB TIL authors in Finland receive library royalties that are almost as much per borrowed book as the royalty for each paperback sold
nekZY TIL that small island archipelago St. Pierre & Miquelon is the only French owned territory in North America and is 30 minutes off the coast from Newfoundland, Canada. It was also a key part of alcohol smuggling into the US during the prohibition era.
v1ZyL TIL John Lennon tried to convince Paul McCartney to drill a hole in his skull as part of a practice called trepanning explaining “All you’d have to do is just bore a little hole in your skull and it lets the pressure off. Paul replied ‘ John, you try it and let me know how it goes.'”